Since 2014 Britain's Aurora Orchestra has built a reputation for its performances of entire symphonies from memory. In The Strad , principal double bass Benjamin Griffiths recalls the ensemble’s initial performance of Mozart’s … » Read

The 55-member Central City Chorus, an all-volunteer Manhattan-based ensemble now in its fourth decade, has appointed Bryan Zaros, a protégé of New York choral king Kent Tritle, to be its music director, starting with the coming … » Read

In a move that, on the surface, appears a win-win, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra (ISO) will collaborate with Illinois State University’s (ISU) Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts and School of Music by moving its performances on campus to … » Read

If Salzburg Festival Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser was justified in calling the festival’s first-ever performances of Puccini’s Il Trittico “important,” it had little robust competition, as illustrated by the … » Read

Lincoln Center has announced its programming for the coming season and, as if to underline its executive layer’s distrust of the classical idiom, much less the canon, it will present a potpourri of the hippest trends in cross-genre, nod to … » Read

The 2½-year, $150 million  refurbishment of the Sydney Opera House has produced one of the best concert halls in the world. So says Simone Young,  chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Peter McCallum, the Sydney … » Read

That Christian Fellowship church in McAllen, TX, that stole, then bowdlerized Hamilton to suit its own (anti-gay) “Christian” agendas, has finally apologized for neither seeking usage rights nor permission to change the lyrics in its … » Read

The Los Angeles Ballet, now in its 17th season, has selected Melissa Barak as the company’s new artistic director. An accomplished ballet dancer and choreographer, she succeeds Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary, the founding co-artistic … » Read

Within the performing arts' efforts to reduce carbon emissions, Glyndebourne is the front-runner, having installed its own wind turbine in January 2012-- a controversial move at the time, inspiring many complaints about its ruining the … » Read

New music for orchestra, chamber musicians, and voices this month includes a second volume reflecting the eclectic palette of the late Julius Eastman and an important environmental work from crack choir The Crossing. To start, though, John … » Read